Nifty Features

[ThomasP]

Over the couple years I was the webmaster of my team's site, I put together a few "nifty features" on the site that either make the site easier to manage or a bit more interesting to use. Sometimes hours upon hours of hard work go into making this stuff and it never makes it past the team's eyes so I figured I'd make a thread for webmasters to show off their stuff.

Examples of my stuff include:

My new zoom tool for the picture gallery that I started at 7pm last night and had working model done at 5am and implemented.
File archives that are automatically updated when new files are FTP'd and can have a description added.
A calendar that isn't so nifty but handwritten like 99% of the code on the site.
I'm in the process of making a chatroom that runs with AJAX.
And there are tons of little things that admins can do to modify the website without having to touch the source code itself.


I'm more than happy to share source code if there are any teams that like what they see and either don't have the time to or don't feel like redoing what I've already done. If you take some of the JavaScript stuff that doesn't look like DreamWeaver (I didn't feel like rewriting that when the team gave me the layout they wanted and had it already) made it and isn't part of the AJAX API I have on the site, just throw in a comment in the code and if you have a links page and can, link to us!


Looking forward to seeing some cool stuff and confirming that I'm not the only nerd that sits around and puts hours and hours into writing code for their team's website.

-Thomas


Edit: The zoom stuff automatically zooms out if the picture is very large so by adjusting the numbers in my code you can set the max height/width that the image will occupy on screen.. I'm going to throw together a semi-high resolution and a high resolution gallery on the site later this evening after my computer science test and quiz bowl practice to give a better demonstration of the zoom tool since almost all of the images in the current galleries have been resized and have a horrible resolution now.